For more than one hundred years, ACLU lawyers have been at the center of one history-making court case after another, participating in more Supreme Court cases than any other private organization.
This page highlights current and important ACLU of Massachusetts cases, and provides ways to sort and search for other casework.
In August 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the national ACLU, together with the law firm WilmerHale, filed a public-records lawsuit against the Boston Police Department (BPD)...
In our client Ryan Morris’s case, the sentencing judge violated his jury trial right by imposing a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence based on facts found at sentencing, instead of facts submitted to a jury...
Victory! In a landmark ruling on local ordinances that are designed to banish sex offenders, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on August 28, 2015 struck down a sex offender residency ordinance in the...
The ACLU of Massachusetts filed an amicus brief in March 2015 urging the state Supreme Judicial Court to hold that, when law enforcement has probable cause to obtain a warrant to look for a particular type...
